Historical information

The postcards and photograph in this Ships Collection were found by the donor. Two of the cards are addressed to a local person "Master Jack de Little, Caramut House, Caramut, Victoria, Australia". Another has a message written in a different language. The remainder have no personal messages on them.

The details of the postcards are-

Published by Stephen Cribb, Southsea:
6967.1 Striking scene at Spithead; Aircraft over the fleet, including airships
6967.2 The King’s Ships; Fleet of ships. Aircraft overhead.
6967.3 HMS HIBERNIA; King Edward Class ship
6967.4 For Docking; Super Dreadnaughts, largest floating dock in the world, in Portsmouth Harbour
6967.5 HMS COLLINGWOOD; Dreadnaught, on which His Majesty’s son is serving.
6967.6 HMS BRITANNICA; Pre-Dreadnaught, 16,350 tons. Inscription “b1” or “61” written on the sea on the front of the postcard.
6967.7 HMS IRON DUKE; Fleet Flagship
6967.8 HMS Submarine D8. Ship numbered “78”
6967.9 HMS IRON DUKE, Fleet Flagship
6967.10 HMS SOUTHAMPTON
6967.11 SHAMROCK IV (Ketch rigged), leaving for America July 18, 14 (1914’) to fetch home the American to Gosport
6967.12 HMS CONQUEROR, June 1913
6967.13 Portsmouth Harbour, The Entrance (from Gosport Hard)
6967.14 Seaplane rising; 20th Century Marvel. Naval air defence. Types of airships, Seaplanes, Monoplanes in The Solent review
6967.15 HMS AUDACIOUS
6967.16 HMS DREADNAUGHT, pioneer of the all-big-gun warship

”Marcus Ward Series, McCaw Stevenson & Oms Ltd”
6967.17 HMS TERRIBLE, textured paper on front with aqua lower border, remnants of blue paper on the back.

Published by Stephen Cribb, Southsea
6967.18 “In time of peace, prepare for war” Hoisting guns and torpedo heads on board a warship
6967.19 Ship in fog
6967.20 HMS HINDUSTAN
6967.21 Spitbank Fort, Spithead, on Solvent Sea
6967.22 HMS GARLAND of Netley

Photographer Edgar Ward. “A halfpenny stamp for inland, one penny for foreign”
6967.23 Entrance to the Cambor, from Portsmouth Harbour. “312, copyright Edgar Ward”
6967.24 Royal yacht alongside Portsmouth Dockyard, “305”

J. Welch & Sons, English Photography
6967.25 The Royal Yacht, Victoria & Albert “50”
6967.26 The VICTORY, firing a Royal Salute “21”

Published by E.A. Schwerdtfeger & Co. London E.C. Printed at their works in Berline. Trade Mark E.A.S.
6967.27 The Hard and Viaduct, Portsea, Portsmouth
6967.28 SS MACEDONIA, P&O, 15212 tons, 1500 h.p., Coloured drawing. On reverse “Master Jack de Little, Caramut House, Caramut, Victoria, Australia”

Published by Union Postale Universelle, Gibralta.
6967.29 HMS KING EDWARD VII leaving Dock N.3 GIBRALTAR – 11/3/05 (1905). Printer V.B. Cumbo, Gibraltar. Drawing. Handwritten “Oroton 28/5/06”. “Master Jack De Little Caramut, Victoria, Australia”

6967.30 7274 BARBARA, Hamburg. Imprinted “ ---O WEDDE ----- VORSETZEN 35/37” inscription, six lines of handwritten text in another language on the back.

Published by the Valentine & Sons Co. Publishing Ltd., Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Branches Sydney. London, Dundee, Cape Town, Montreal, Toronto.
6967.31 SS MOLDAVIA, the first dining saloon, Valentine Series M.4059. Valentines Real Photo Series Postcard.

Postcard made in U.S.A. Agfa ANSCO
6967.32 Port McNicoll, Ont. DSR..
6967.33 Orient Line SS ORONSAY, 20,000 tons. On board the Orient Line.

Tuck’s Post Card, Carte Postale. ‘Our Navy’ Series II, Raphael Tuck & Sons. “Photogravure” Postcard Nu. 4305. Art publishers to their Majesties the King and Queen.
6967.34 HMS QUEEN MARY, HMS Queen Mary, Battle Cruiser, launched 1912, completed 1913, 27,000 tons, 75,000 S.H.P., 28 knots per hour, 8 13.5-inch guns, 16 4-inch guns, 2 torpedoes. Commissioned September 1913. Printed in England.
6967.35 HMS SUPERB
6967.36 HMS TEMERAIRE
6967.37 HMS MONARCH

Small photograph, not a postcard, H 6 x W 9 cm
6967.38 PHOTOGRAPH NESTOR? Small sepia photograph, ship at dock. Stamped “Kodak print” “549”. Handwritten on back is “NESTOR?“

Significance

The Ships Collection of postcards and a small photograph depict maritime vessels connected to our Australian alliance with Britain, particularly during World War I. Two of the postcards are specifically addressed to a ‘Master Jack de Little’ at Caramut House, in the local township of Caramut which was a Pioneer Settlement and a Soldier Settlement area after World War I.

Physical description

Collection of thirty-eight postcards from various photographers. They depict shipping, harbours and naval vessels from the Great War to the Second War War.
Most of the cards have a title, generally handwritten, on the front of the postcard.
A few of the postcards have inscriptions.

Inscriptions & markings

6967.6 Handwritten on the sea in the photograph “b1” or “61”
6967.28 Handwritten on reverse “Master Jack de Little, Caramut House, Caramut, Victoria, Australia”
6967.29 Handwritten “Oroton 28/5/06”. “Master Jack De Little Caramut, Victoria, Australia”
6967.30 Imprinted Stamp “ ---O WEDDE ----- VORSETZEN 35/37” (a location in Germany). Handwritten, six lines of text in another language, possibly German.
6967.38 Handwritten on the back is “NESTOR?“